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Established 1837. BRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY 1, Princes-street, Bank, London. Empowered by. Special Act of Parliament. 4 Vict. ell). 0. E very description of Life Assurance business transacted. ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary. rinHo INDEPENDENT FIRE INSURANCE cO3:PANY (Limited). Capital Ono Million Stirling, in 4 0 ,000 &‘ - tares of £25 each. V. per Snare to be phid on application, a:td V. 10s. per Share on allotment. Calls not exceeding £1 per Share, at intervals of not less than Three Months. DIRECTORS. John Downes, Esq. (Messrs. Downes and Scott), Upper Thames-streat, Director of the National Provincial Marine Insurance Company. George Haines, Esq., Merchant, 36, Lombard-street. John Inc, , ledew, Esq. , C ambrid g e House, Lee Park, Kent. William K n i g ht, E q. (Messrs. William Knight and Co.), 83, Lombard -street. Henry Ledga-d, Esq , Forest-hill, Kent. George S. Symons, Esq. (Messrs, G. S. Symons and Co.), 20 and 21, St. Dunstan's hill. John E. Tibos, Esq. (Messrs. J. E. Tibbs and Son), Threadneedle—streia, Director of the Staffordshire Roll- 7 - ing Stock Company. James Lunhani, Esq. (Messrs. James Lunham and Co.), 251, High-street, Borough. Jaboz Voss, Esq, (). I .essrs. Yeas, Meek, and Co.), Eater square. Walter Brodie, Esq., 13. Delamere terrace,. Hyde-park, late Member of the souse of Representatives , New Zealand. (Influential names in Manc.. tester and Liverpool will be immediately added t,a the Direction.) BANKERS—The Metropolitan a id Provincial Bank, 79, Cornhill, E.C• SOLICITORS—Messrs. Bennett and Stark, 4, Furnival's Inn, Holborn. Qld Broad-street, BROKERS—Messrs. Scrutton and Son , 81, AUDITORS—Messrs. Cash and Edwards', Public Accountants, 13, Tokenhouse - yard, B. C . GENERAL AND RESIDENT MANAGER —Mr. Robert Steers, SECRETARY—Mr. George Drew Hodges. TEMPORARY OFFICES-48, Lombard .street. This Company has for its purpose the transaction of the importam: - and remunerative business of Fire Insurance, and that ory, to the exclusion of other branches of busi• ness not unusually associated with it, under the same direc tion, and operating on one and the same capital. The Directors are satisfied that the scope for the business of fire insurance presented by this country and its dependencies, is, as a commercial specu2ation, deserving of paramount attention ; and, the contract being one terminable annually, the profits or loss arising determine in like manner, year by year, and exhibit at once a c0.. - aPanY's financial position and its resources. While the partial remission of ti's fire insurance duty now in the contemplation of Gevernuaent, and applicable only to the insurance of stock-in-trade, will afford a com paratively limited relief from the onereua oppression, the Directors have resolved to allow upon payment for every policy, and afterwards at each renewal, an immediate dr aw.• back, which, in many instances, will amount to a total ex . tinction of the entire duty of three shillings per cent. To the public at large, and to the greater proportion of the manufacturing and mercantile community, this arrange ment will prove a highly acceptable advantage. The draw back allowed by a few of the older offices by way of per tentage on premiums, at intervals of years, is of im portance only to those who are rated at premiums ranging chiefly from one guinea per cent, upwards, and is partici pated in only by those who may have premiums to be re newed at the period of the making of these returns ; whereas by the principle adopted by this Company, the owners of the classes of risk of the more ordinary occurrence, are they who will be the more substantially and at the same time promptly beneficed. The concession to be thus made to the public will eerie tainly be the means not only of increasing in their respec tive amounts insurances now existing, but of multiplying to a very large extent the number of insurance contracts in this country and its colonial connections. The insurable property in this kingdom alone, including its enormous and increasing importations arising from the wise interchange of tariffs, is believed to approximate to £5,000,000,000, whereas £1,300,000,000 only is insured ; thus leaving nearly three-fourths of the insurable amount altogether unprotected from loss. It would be difficult to find any class of investments which has yielded such large profits as the shares of well-con ducted fire offices. The shares of the older offices have in creased in value immensely, being, in one case, at a pre mium of about 1,300, and in another of nearly 2,000 per cent, on the sums originally paid up. The increased value of the shares of offices established within the last 20 years stands at from 80 to 200 per cent. It is under these circumstances, and considering the im mense field presented for operations to come, that the direc tors have taken advantage of so favourable an opportunity to offer to the public the benefits of the principle of business now adopted by them ; and they have every reason to believe that by its special feature and the public support which that must necessarily invite the undertaking will speedily be productive of the best monetary results. The executive will be entrusted to officers of tried experi ence in the business of fire insurance, andthe directors have already matured arrangements for the immediate establish ment of five hundred agencies. The directors desire to give the most unqualified assur ance to the public that nothing of the nature of frivolous objections to prompt and liberal settlement of claims for compensation will ever be entertained or countenanced by them. Forms cf application for shares may be had at the offices of the Company, or of the Brokers, Bankers, or Solicitors. In the event of no allotment being made, the deposit will be returned in full, FORNI OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Directors of the Independent Fire Insurance Company, Limited. Gentlemen,—Having paid to your the sum of , being a deposit of X! I er share on shares in the above Company, I hereby request that you will allot me that number; and I agree (according to the form prescribed by the Articles of Association) to accept such shares, or any less number you may allot me, to pay £1 ifs. per share on allotment, and to execute the Articles of Association when required ; an I I request that my name may be placed on the Register of shareholder for the shares so allotted. Name in full Residence Profession or business Date MR. and Mrs. GERMAN REED, with Mr. JOHN PARRY, TO-NIGHT, at Eight, in THE PY tiAMI U. To conclude, last few times, with Mr. JOHN PARRY'S DESCRIPTION of MILS. ROSELEAF'S LITTLE EVENING PARTY. ROYAL GALLERY of ILLUTRATION, 14, Regent-street. Every Evening (except Saturday), at Eight. Thursday and Saturday After noons at Three. _ _ . JEOSY LEA.—Every Tuesday Iforniny, at Three, and every Saturday Evening, at Eight. Stalls can new be secured. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-garden. From this time until the end of the season there will be four nights in each week, viz., every Monday, Tuesday, Thurs day, and ,t' , .aturday. Signor Wachtel—Signor Gra ziani—Herr Schmid. THIS EVENING (TUESDAY), 19th of April, w:11 be performed, for the second time this season, Rossini's grand opera, GUGLIELMO TELL. Mat ilde, Mdile. Marie Battu ; Guglielmo Tell, Signor Graziani, his 2d appearance in that character ; Jemmy, Madame Rudersdorff; MeLth +.l, Signor Polonini ; Walter. Herr Schmid; Ge.sler, Signor Tagliafico ; Un Pescatore, Signor Neri-iaraldi ; and Arnoldo, Signor Wachtel, his 2d appearance in that character in England. Conductor, Mr. Costa. La Tyrollenne w,ll be danced by Mdlle. Salvioni, Mdlle. Carmine, and Mdlle. Navarre. Commence at half past Eight. Pit tickets, 7s. ; amphitheatre eta Is, 10s. 6d., 75., and ss. ; amphitheatre. 2s. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had at the box-of6c~ under the portico of the theatre, which is open from ten to five, and at the principal musicsellers' and librarians'. THEATRE ROYAL DR U R Y-L AN E. Managers, Messrs. Edmond Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, AN APRIL FOOL. Mr. G. Belmore. Atter which, will be produced the Grand Stage Revival of Shalcipere's Chrmicle or Historical Play, entitled the First fart of HENRY THE FOURTH. . . The cast will include impersonations by those emine it %rtists. Mr. PHELPS, Mr. Walter Montgomery, Mr. Waiter Lacy. Mr. A ddiso ~ Mr. Ryder, Mr. Robert Roxby, Mr. Barrett, Mr. E Phelps, Mr. Rayner, Mr. H. Vandenhoff, Mr. Belmore, Mr. Ellerton, Mr. Fitzjames, Mr. Neville ; Miss Edith Wynne, M ss Rrse Leclercq, dud Mrs. Edmund Fal coner, supported by all the Members of the Drury -lane Ccm pany. Concluding with MY HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, April 19, OUR AMERICAN COUSIN': Messrs. t.'othern, Buckstone, Chippendale, Rogers, Clark, Gordon, Braid, &c. ; Mesdames Angel, Lindley, Hill, Rani bnowden, &c After which, the new Easter piece, entitled VENUS AND ADONIS. Messrs. Compton, Wm. Farren, Coe. &c. ; Mes dames Louise Keeley, Snowden, Nelly rower, Hill, Wright, Ro_Ters, &c. To conclude with TURNING THE TABLES. Commence at 7. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.-. Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, DONNA DIANA. After which, THE COMEDY OF ERRORS. The Two D romios, by the Brothers Webb. ATo conclude with, 22d time, a new Farce, by J. M. Morton, 8 ,„(1., entitled DRAWING-ROOM, SECOND FLOOR, AND ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. TFIIS EVENING, the performances will commence with Tat DAY AFTER. THE FAIR: Messrs. Width combe, Garden, Moreland, and Miss E. Lavenu. ter which, at Eight o'clock, the 135th Night of BEL 1)1:31()Ni°, w hic h' at Story, in Twelve Tableaux, taken from Stendhal's "Italian Chronicle ." Principal characters by Messrs. Jordan, Charles, J. Brougbi - imi Emery, sorton, Raymond, Moreland, Smith, Clifford, :2ollett, Sim ss Nate Try, Miss X L avenu, Mfrs. Lee, tiles Elsworthy. The P er ublic are entreated to take notice that No Charge is made to the occupants of Boxes, Box-placea, or Stalls, either foi• play bills or for the safe keeping* of hat+ and cloaks, and tnat the attendants in all Parts of the house are forbidden ti) rweivc any gratuities whatever. Box-o Toe open daily from 1 1 to S. C ommence a t 7. 3/11. FECHTE whole prcfita f the le announce ght,sc t n h ta of ion a e Minuet will be divide o d I , etween the NA IITIOP rese NAL SHAK SI'EARE COMMIT fE II . arid the D RAMATIC COLLEGE SCHOOLS frothECHTER, S indisp:a!tion pre theventingthe pction of Hamlet on the Lvenin ;of he 23d, LYCEUM THEATRE w.ll be closed that night. T EW THEATRE-R 0 YAL ADELP . H:i Solo Prcprlotor and Mana 2.47 . 51:'•B, VC-abater. THIS EVENINO, ICI ON PARLE FRANCAIS : Mr J. L. Toole, Mr. K Phillips, Mr. Billington, and Miss K.K e il y At 8, LEAH : Mi ss Bateman, supported by Messrs. A. Stirling R. Phillips , Billington, Stuart, Eburne, Stephenson Miss U. Simms and Mrs. Biilington. To e3Nelude with T FIE AREA BELLE : Messrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, te. nomer, Miss Woolgar, and Mrs. H. Lewis. Commence at 7. MI S 8 11 ATE MA N.-1, E A H.-THI6 EVENING and EVERY EVENING.-31iss Bateman will re-appear in her great impersonation of the Jewish maiden iLtil further notice. lu order to give due effect to t:is most remark a bl e success of the se..son, e at hely new scenery by the celebrated artists M essrs. D amso n and t..ons, a:,a Thomps _n. New dr. E 49,3 and appo ntments have been prepare I for its productioz.—N.,;. In the consequence of mressing and numeroua Applications at the Box-otli:te, ar ingements have now been nade by which Scats m , y be ob a Fortnight in Ativn:e. taGa WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. fan DAY.—Morning, 12h. 27m.—Afternoon, 12h. am. ro-moßuow.-Morning, lh. 6m.—Afternoon, lh. 26m. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, MY PRESERVER. After which, the Pa cony S:ene from ROMEO AND JULIET. Li aes Swanborough and Wilton. Followed by the Fifth Act of it iDSU3I3IER NIGHT'S DREAM. Concluding with the Great Burlesque, ORPHEITS AND EURYDICE : Messrs. Honey, Wood, James Fenton; ales dames Swanborough, Marie Wilton, Hughes, .Sio. Commence at 7. R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Re-engagement of those celebrated artistes, Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews. --The greatly successful new Comedy every Evening. THIS EVENING, A DAY AFTELt THE WEDDING. Mr. F. Robinson and Miss Henert. At a quarter before 8, the successful new Comedy, by L. Buckin , ham, Esq., entitled THE SILVER LINING: Mr. ( harles Mathews, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Ashley. Mr. Montague; Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirling. After which, COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles Mathews. - To conclude with UNDER THE ROSE : Mr. Ashley and Miss A. Cottrell. Commence at 7. BONNET'S SILKS a LYON.--Every Article of commerce takes its title either from the inventor or manufacturer, and the more perfect the production the greater is the credit which attaches to the originator. _ _ BONNET'S SILKS are said to be incapable of identifica tion in England ; but the fallacy of such an assertion is ex pos:d by the very trade mark of the firm, as exhibited by Messrs. JAY, of Regent-street. The following' interwoven mark may be seen at the end ofeach piece :—" Manufacture de C. J. Bonnet et Gie., it Lyon Injurieux." Wear guaranteed. COALS.—The LILLESHALL COMPANY'S lJ COALS. Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'.......2Bs. per ton. Double.. ..21s. per ton. Top 255. „ Nut 5........ 19s. „ Deep ...225. „ Well screened and delivered within five miles of their De pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and i 7, South Wharf, Paddington, W. Best Colo Terms cash. JOHN SCOTT, Sole Agent. tpliE THIRD EDITION OF IRE SUN," Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, jan be had Every Evening of G. R. GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. The Weather-. Sun Office, April 19, 1864. THERMOMETER. This day at Two o'clock 62 Barometer-30.20. Wind—S.W.; moderate breeze, and very fine. j z SUIT. LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1864. Whenever the Government have been pressed very hard by the Opposition, of late, they have yielded. In order to induce them to yield, however, the pres sure has required to ba exceedingly hard indeed. So hard that it has been at moments painful merely to contemplate. Very recently, for example, no less than three members of the Administration—what one at least among those ex-colleagues of Lord PALMERSTON would speak of with a sort of MICAW BER hesitation of ostentatious modesty as—a-hem --cg Ministers of the Crown," in point of fact—no less than three of these Ministers of the Crown have vary recently been driven so hard by the Opposi tion as, very reluctantly on their own part and on the part of their more important colleagues, to be ousted from any share whatever in the Govern ment. There is no getting over the fact that it is so. And, equally, there is no denying the force of the deduction consequent up.m its being so—that it is a sign of extreme weakness on the part of the Government. It is all nonsense, at the same time, in regard to any one of these occur rences, to talk, as politicians have been accustomed to talk hitherto, at similar party crises about these things being simply attes tations of the spitefulness of a factious Opposition. Look at any one of the three resignations of office here referred to, and say whether anything of the kind can be really and seriously insisted upon as the true explanation. Mr. STANSFELD'S withdrawal to a back bench from that front bench where he occupied a position of such disproportionate prominence as to sit actually side by side with the Prime Minister of England— Mr. STANSFELD'S with drawal at last very reluctantly to that back bench, was a concession made at the eleventh hour not to the Opposition, but to the Public Oidnion which hehad been so flagrantly outraging. There can be no question whatever about that. For, otherwise, what upon earth could have induced the Prime Minister, and so chivalrous a Prime Minister too, as Lord PALMERSTON, to accept to-day, the very resignation of his subordinate, he had so peremps torily declined to accept only yesterday ? Had he not previously intimated, as much, with a haughty frankness of manner that won cheers from his supporters—so grandly it sounded at the time when he talked about taking the entire responsi bility of the proceeding upon himself ! That, it will be remembered, was immediately before the Easter Vacation. Afterwards a few trifling additional particulars, documents, and so forth [Ah ! that wretched truth about litera scripla »lanet . 1 ] had come out during the recess, again, as it oddly hap pened,in one of the imperial law courts in Paris—and so—and so—what was not to be thought of imme diately before the Vacation was announced as having been done immediately after the Vaca tion. Mr. STANSFELD hal tendered his resig nation, and Lord PALMERSTON had accepted it. Now, it is only fair and right to remem ber, in regard to the Opposition in this matter— to remember of the factious Opposition that is charged with the responsibility of having brought it all about—that between the two incidents referred to, that is to eay between Lord PALMERSTON S ostentatiously taking upon himself the responsi bility of retaining his colleague (M. MAZZINI'S in timate friend and injudicious letter-receiver) and Lord PALMERSTON'S subsequently ac ceptance of Mr. STANSFELD'S tardy, but by that time. inevitable resignation—the Opposition had really and truly not raised a finger—the Opposition had not breathed one single syllable. They were evidently going to, if you like. But they hadn't done so—nay, for that matter, they hadn't had the opportunity of doing so. The intervening between the two incidents of the Eiger holidays, precluded them from doing so, for the very simple but sufficient reason that Par liament was not then sitting. Directly Parliament was going to resume its sittings, immediately after the Vacation, they evidently were going to move, and that, tee, rather decidedly, in the matter, Henos—from a knowledge of this—Mr. STANS FELD'S anticipatory resignation. Hence--for the self same reason—Lord PALMERSTON'S acceptance of it, on seco n d th oug ht s ! C oncess ions, these —n o t to the Opposition, but to that Public Opinion which it was felt certain by Lord PALMERSTON, by Mr. STANSFELD, by every member of the Go vernment, big or little, would infallibly be pro• concord against them as the consequence of any adverse movement in this matter taken by the Opposition. For, what, in point of fact, would have been those certain consequences ? The defeat of Ministers upon any new division (after such very ugly supplementary documents had been brought to light in Paris daring the holidays) the certain defect of Ministers upon any new division in the House of Commons in re gard to M. MAZZINI'S intimate personal friend, must inevitably have led, thereupon, to the dissolution of Parliament. And a nice cry, certainly, it would have been to go to the country MAzzf r alias FLOWER, and Secret Letter Writing !" To say nothing at all about—Daggers—Blood Money— Conspiracies—Assassination—and so forth. No— it is simply idle, it is simply absurd and ridiculous to talk about Mr. STANSFELD'S resignation, and Lord PALMERSTON'S acceptance of it, as the result of any mere factiousness on the part of the Opposi tion. The incident was—to express the fact a little more truthfully—a prudent yielding, at last, on the part of the Government, before the terror of that Public Opinion that was felt and known (upon second thoughts) to be at the back of the Opposition. A Tory Opposition, if you will, or, at any rate, a Conservative Opposition, but, at the least, an English Opposition, not a Mazzinian Opposition. And, so in the matter of those two other resig nations, Mr. LOWE'S and Mr. CHICHESTER FOR TESCUE'S. These also are concessions extorted from the reluctant Government by exceedingly hard pressure on the part of the Opposition —a pressure, it is true, only partly brought to bear—but threaten ing to become excessively formidable. The Go■ vernment, in each instance, yielding, under ail this hard pressure—not to the Opposition, but to the irresistible force of the Public Opinion that was felt to be at the back of it. Not a more unpopular man held office under the Crown than Mr. LOWE. And the fact of his unpopularity was a thing notorious. Why, for that matter, time has been down in his own borough when he has been nearly stoned to death ! He has the knack, somehow,of treading upon people's corns in a manner the most excruciatingly offensive. And hence, they come to like him so very much ! Why, we hesitate not to say that the personal un popularity of Mr. LOWE has for a long while past bee❑ as prevalent on one side of the house es upon the other—that it is up to this hour as intense and unmistakeable outside the House as in it. His career as an administrator has been one succes sion of defeats. And the defeat he has had at length to enda:e at the hands of Lord ROBERT CECIL has been such that very shame has at last constrained the unpopular Minister to tender his resignation. That resignation Lord PALMERSTON has thought proper to accept. The noble lord protests, while doing so, that if the House could have only heard before the late division the explanations given by his ex-colleague last even ing, it would have come to an entirely different conclusion. If so—why not have tried it ? If so —why accept the resignation when tendered, why not fight it out, why not stand by your ill treated colleague ? Why ? Simply because Public Opinion is against Mr. LOWE as President of the Educational Board, far more than the Opposition is against him. Meanwhile, in the 'natter of the resignation just now of the Under-Secretary of State, Mr. CHICHESTER FORTESQUE —that has been consequent, no doubt, upon the very hard pressure brought to bear against the Government by the Opposition, nay, indirectly by the right hon. gentle man the loader of the Opposition—but it is at the same time a concession resulting from the Mini sters' own violation of the rules of the House of Commons, those sacred rules that are part and par cel of our Constitution—not a concession resulting from the factiousness of the Opposition. But, while it is precisely as we have said in all these instances —the ineidentb referred to are at the same time point blank indications of blundering and weakness on the part of the Government. There are few more distressing accidents that occur in domestic life than those which ensue from poisonous mixtures being taken by mistake. The shock which such a calamity must cause to the relatives must be great indeed, and it is quite time that some very stringent measures be adopted to ensure more care and caution on the part of che mists and their assistants. We are constantly hearing and reading of such cases, and it seems truly lamentable that all this suffering and sorrow should accrue from what must be called, looked at what way we will, most culpable negligence on the part of those who make up the prescriptions. Lately there has occurred at Liverpool a must dis tressing instance of this kiad. Mr. LINGARD, a tradesman in that city, had been suffering from a cold in his eye, and having received a prescription from a doctor he sent it to a chemist's to be made up. A part of the medicine was a powder, and after taking this the deceased expired in great agony, and appeared as if he had been poisoned. This was the fact, and Dr. EDWARDS, the analy tical chemist, deposed that there had been sufficient strychnine to cause death. It was attempted be shown that great care was employed, in the establishment where the poison was given by mis take to prevent accidents by keeping the bottles that contained any poisonous and dangerous con tents on different shelves and using coloured bottles. However, it afterwards transpired that this powder in question, 6 ' James's Powder," which had been prescribed by Dr. NOTTINGHAM, was on the same shelf as the strychnine bottle. This is of itself sufficient to prove that great negligence is displayed by those who have the care of these dangerous compounds and made up medicines. This is no isolated case, it is one that is constantly occurring, and no warnings seem to produce impression enough to contribute to salutary reform. The jury, in this instance, have returned a verdict of manslaughter, and it is to be hoped that the stringent course they have adopted will be a warning to all in Isimilar positions of trust and responsibility. Also the jury made a presentment to the effect 6 ; that there might be a better arrangement of the bottles than that at present adopted by CLAY and ABRA HAM." This recommendation applies to all those whose establishments furnish examples of heedless. ness in this important branch of their department. It would seem strange, at first sight, that risk to themselves and great danger to others she old be in curred by chemists and their assistante, rather than employ a needful caution and exercise a due vigi lance. When a little consideration has been given to the subject, however, it will be found that pretty much the same occurs in all classes and ranks, and throughout all the various departments of business. Use and custom make all things familiar, and the assistant who at first may be nervous at the task of managing the details of a business which makes him dispense and deal with deadly prisons will soon become accustomed to the thing, and be quite at his ease in arranging the matters which are to others concerns of grievous anxiety. When we remember, however, that life and death hang in the balance, and that the happi ness or misery of many families may depend upon his exercising a due amount of caution, it is a matter of regret that so much haste is used, and so much carelessness allowed in the dispensation of medicines. Some years since a lady sent to a chemist for a black draught for her child, and one assistant called out to another for it. In the confusion of the moment the second thought he asked for ' 6 black drop," and accordingly gave that. The first one put the wrong label on the deadly mixture, and the result of course was fatal. This constant recurrence of fearful calamqies seems to point out that more should be done than has ever yet been attempted to ensure the proper exercise of care and caution. It surely cannot be so impossible to make rules end regulations to guard against the fatal bluudera that are constantly being made; and if some attention was paid to this most important question by the THE SUN, 140.NDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, 1864. authorities, it would be the means of ensuring a far greater amount of attention on the part of the heads of establishments. ILey should be more particular in their choice of assistants, and not retain in their service those who are guilty of negligence or careless habits. Until all those concerned in the making up and dispensing of medicines will adopt some new system of management, and rigidly enforce obe dience from all their employes, it is idle to expect that any great or permanent benefit will be gained, or any sure protection afforded to those whose lives are at the mercy of a moment's want of thought. Nothing can be worse than the manner in which things are now managed in many chemist's establishments; and, sad as it is for the individual concerned in this painful matter at Liverpool, it is to be trusted that this last fatal evidence of the effects of heedlessness will prove a warning to those who are concer. ed in similar avocations. The authorities, also, should endeavour to do something in the way of enactment, in order to prevent as much as possible the likelihood of a similar calamity occurring. No one oan say that there has not been ample cause given for the introduction of a remedy o guard against the danger and distress of the pre sent system. The London Conference, (From the Times Vienna Correspondent ) VIENNA, April 16. In the sitting held by the German Diet on the 13th inst., the following matters were satisfactorily dis posed of:-1. The members of the Ehgerer Rath (Smaller Council) unanimously resolved to send a delegate to the London Conference. 2. Baron von Beust, the Saxon Minister President, was elected, by 14 " voices" out of 16, to represent the Ger manic Confederation. The minority of two was formed by Bavaria and Brunswick. 3. The mo tion of the Bavarian Minister von der Pfordten —the originator of the complicated and unedifyir g Schleswig-Holstien question—that Baron Beust should be specially charged to uphold the claims of the Duke of Augustenburg, was rejected by a majority of 14, which deems it advisable to give none but general irstruct ions to the representative of the Bund. M. von Beust goes pro forma to Frankfort, and on his arrival there he will be told by his constituents to uphold the rights of fl o Duchies, and to claim for them admie: istrat i„ independence. Not long since I h e ".:i an interview with a German statesman of repute, and he expressed to me his c r ,eviction that ultimately "Earl Russell's will be adopted by a ll th e mediating Pokers. On m y i nqu i r i ng what he meant, my interlocutor produced a map of Den mark, and traced with his forefinger an imaginary F.ne from Kiel to dusurn. After a slight pause he drew another lite from Eckenforde to Schleswig and Husum, and then one from Flensburg to Ton dern. "If the Prussians," said he, " get pos session of the fortifications at Dybbol, we shall lay claim to the lint from Eeleernforde to Husum, and if they take the Island of Alsen, it is not unlikely that we shall want to include Flensburg in the Federal te;ritory." To my remark, that the Germans were in a minority in almost all the places and districts to the north of Schleswig, no reply was given. The French Government is said to have relinquished the idea of proposing to the Powers to introduce the pl,biscite into the Duchies; and if Bach should prove to be the case a great weight will be taken off the mind of M. von Schmerling. If the Galician Poles were asked whether they should better like to be the subjects of an independent King of Poland than to remain under the sceptre of the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, they would hardly fail to reply that they should prefer being ruled over by a monarch of their own choosing. For obvious reasons such matters are rarely touched on by writers for the Austrian press, but (me of them to day observes that none of the German Sovereigns can possibly feel admiration " for an institution which is of ultra-democratic origin." Baron von Biegeleben, the Record representative of Austria in the Conference, wen': to Berlin last night ; and it is understood that be and M. von Balan, the second representative of Prussia, will leave together for London in the evening of Monday, the 18th inst. It was at first proposed that the German Diet should send two delegates to the Conference, but ultimately it was resolved to let Baron &est, who thoroughly understands the merits of the question at issue, go to London alone. At 1 o'clock on Thursday last the Emperor of Mexico received two deputations at Miramar, and an hour later he and the Empress Charl;•,, te went on board the Navara, When theirmajesties had ascended the side of the v esse l N O was to convey them to their new empire :u6guns of the Bellona fired a sal u t e , an d in) Inediately afterwards the sig nal for depart,:,,ewee given. As his Majesty stood on deck '.,e looked wi s tf u lly a t his Castle o f Mira. and the eyes of his talented and amiable, but very ambitious, consort were long turned in the same direction. A few minutes before the Emperor Maximilian quitted his native country he, by means of the electric telegraph, bade farewell to the inha bitants of this city. The Novara was accompanied by the Imperial yacat Fantasie, by the French frigate Tnemis, and by six large steamers belonging to the Austrian L oyd Company. The Viennese knew very little of the Archduke Ferdinand Maxi milian, as he generally lived in the southern part of the empire, but they are a kindhearted people, and doubtless have mentally wished him and his consort " God speed." The Austro-Mexican Body-guards are to be attired in buckskins and jack-boots, scarlet coats with silver cords and epaulets, and silver helmets. The Imperial adjutants will wear green c oats w i t h s il ver cords an d e p a ulets, and a plumed hat. B e f ore h e l e f t T r i e ste, the new Em peror gave the Mexican order of Guadaloupe to several persons who had displayed a kindly feeling towards him and been active in his service. The Austrians are very wroth +h it such great attention is paid to Garibaldi in London, but the writers in the official papers put a good face on the matter, and express a hope that a damp climate and strong wines will produce no bad effect on the health of the hero of Aspromonte. It is here firmly believed that the French Govern ment will try to persuade the members of the Lon don Conference to express their opinions in respect to Poland. The weather is unusually cold, and the trees are still leafless. Thi s morn i ng the mercury in Reau mur's therm ometer was b u t one degree above the freezing point. SIX PERSONS DROWNED. —The Inverness Courier reports a painful occurrence which happened a taw days ago, near one of the Coiglach Summer Isles. Two fishing boats, each containing six persons, left Scoraig, Little Lochbroom, to fetch Beware, for manuring purposes, from the adjoining islands. The water was found to be high, with little ware within reach, and one of the boats returned home. The other remained till the tide would recede, but it is believed that it foundered, and that the craw was drowned. A day or two afterwards portions of the missing boat were found on one of the smallest islands of the group. LIFEBOAT SEB.VICES.—SuUTIINVOLD, SUFFOLK, Monday Night.—At about 10 a.m. on Saturday two of the fishing boats were observed to be making for the shore, upon which a heavy surf was beating. The wind was blowing very strong from S.S.E., and there was a heavy sea running on the shoal. Finding it impossible that the boats could land, the Southwold lifeboat of the National Institution was at once launched, and was fortunately Su , . cessful in bringing the two fishing boats and their crews safely asbore at about 12 a.m. The lifeboat behaved ex tremely well on thin occasion. JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES.—Lord Redesdale has laid before the House of Lords a bill to enable joint• stock companies carrying on business on board to have an official seal to be used in a foreign country by an agent ap pointed for the purpose. Mr D. Griffith's Bill before the House of Commons proposes to provide that when a poll is demanded at a joint-stock company's meeting a voting paper shall be sent to every shareholder, and time allowed (at least six days) for him to depute some other shareholder to deliver the voting paper at the poll. DESPATCH OF THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, April 18,—The Royal Mail 'Company's steamship Atrato, Capt. Woolley, sailed hence to-day, at 3 p.m., with the mails for the British and foreign West Indies, the Pacific, California, Central Ame rica, &o. Amongst the passengers are Chief Justice Sharpe, Capt. Wise, Lieutenant Cooper, Surgeon M‘Damott, for Barbadoce, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. LREITTER'S TELEGRAMS.] THE PRUSSIAN LOSS IN THE ASSAULT UPON DUFFEL. • GRAVENSTEIN, APRIL 19 (Morning). The Prussian loss in killed and wounded in yes terday's assault upon Duppel, amounts to 2 generale, 60 officers, and 600 privates. The Prussians captured 83 cannon and many Danebrage. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, APRIL 18. The Emperor of Austria has adjourned the Inter national Exhibition, which was to have taken place in 1866 at Vienna. The reasons given for this step are, firstly, 13:Tause the political state of affairs in every quarter has prevented industrial develop ment ; secondly, because Austria is in a transitory state, as regards her general commercial policy, and in her position towards Ills Zollverein; and, lastly, on account of the International Exhibition in Paris, which is to be held about the same time. ROME. APRIL 18 (Evening). The Emperor of Mexico has arrived here. His reception was brilliant. An immense crowd was assembled at the railway station. The French re gimental bands performed as he passed through the streal. The Emperor is staying at the Palais Mares chotti. SPAIN. MADRID, APRIL 18 (Evaning). The Opposition journals strongly support the proposal of Senor Salaverria to negotiate the bonds given by the purchasers of national property. The Government denies having had any idea of appointing General Lersundi Captain General of Santo Domingo, and at present intends to maintain General Gandara in that post. AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 19. The Hamburg and American Company's steamer Germania, from New York on the sth inst., has arrived off Netley Hospital. She is awaiting orders before proceeding to Hamburg, in consequence of Danish ships being off the month of the Weser. She brings 35 bags of mails, 35 passengers for Southampton, and 71 for Hamburg. No specie. On the sth she spoke the Bremen ships Colum bia and Victoria, and an English ship showing the third D.P. 9,460; on the 14th inst., the English bark Glentill, and on the 16th the English bark Quebec. Her news has been anticipated. FRANCE. BOURSE, April 18.—The Emperor's letter pub lished by the Moniteur, and the announcement of the reduction to be made in the registration dues, have produced a very great effect, and prices have agein made an immense stride upwards. Threes, for the Account, after having been done at 68tr., are now firm at 67fr. 65e. Mobilier have advanced to 1,2961. The Railway Market has been similarly acted on, and most of the lines are quoted higher. The quotations closed as fol lows :-- 41 per Cents .. 94 Do. ead month.... 3 per Cents Do. end month 67 55 Credit Mobilier 1270 no. end mont h 1280 Bank Shares 3303 Credit 1 oncier 1320 Roman Italian Loan 7O Do. end month 69 40 New ditto — Do. end month.... Russian Austrian Spanish Threes..., Home Debt .. 49 75 Deferred RAIL:YAM Cash. Account. 900 902 50 983 75 .. 980 Orleans Northern New ditto Lyons and Mediterranean 955 965 New ditto 902 50 .. Southern Western Eastern Sardinian .. 375 375 Austrian Lombard North of Spain .. • .. 505 Saragossa Ditto to Barcelona Railway and Public Companies in Parliament, The committee on the proposed new Metropolitan Rail ways met the first time yesterday, Lord Stanley in the chair, the other members being Mr. Ingham, Lord Athlumney, Mr. Cobbett, and Mr. J. Hardy. There was a great array of counsel, Parliamentary agents, and other professional gentlemen employed. The bills before the committee were 23 in number. The chairman said the committee would first take into consideration the Great Northern (No. 1, Barnet Branch), and London, Chatham, and Dover (No. 1), and afterwards in their order of rotation the London, Brighton, and South Coast new lines (Battersea) ; Metropolitan Railway (additional powers) ; and London, Chatham, and Dover Railway (No. 2, new lines). It would be for the convenience of all parties that this announce ment should be made, as the inquiry into these cases would no doubt occupy all the week. Counsel appearing for the promoters of the Great Northern bill were Mr. Denison, Q.C., and Mr. Davison; for the Regent's Canal Company, in opposition, Mr. R. Gurney, the Recorder, and Mr. Hope Scott, Q.O ; for the Metropolitan Railway Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., Mr. V. Harcourt, and Mr. Holway ; for the London, Chatham, and Dover Mr. Burke, Q.C., Mr. Round, and Mr. Somerset; for the Midland Railway Sir W. Alexander, Mr. Hope Scott, and Mr. Venables. There was also a petition against the bill from two shareholders, Messrs Archhutt and Pocock, Mr. Denison then at considerable length opened the case for the Great Northern Railway, statingalaat the principal objects of that company's appli. cation were to empower them to make a branch line of one mile 32 chains from the main line to Barnet, and an ap proach thereto to be completed in four years, to acquire land for station purposes to the westward of their goods station at King's-cross, to run over the Metropolitan Rail way between King's-cross and its Farringdon-street Ter minus, to run over the London, Chatham, and Dover be tween its junction with the Metropolitan Railway and the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, and the Victoria Station at Pimlico, and to agree with the London, Chatham, and Dover for the mutual use of their undertakings. The pro moters also sought power to confirm an agreement of Dec., 1t560, between the Great Northern and Metropolitan Rail ways, for the use of working by the former company of their trains on the before mentioned portion of the Metro politan Railway, and for an option to the Great Northern to take on lease land for a warehouse at the east of the Metropolitan Railway at Clerkenwell. For these purposes it was proposed to raise a further sum of £200,000 by new ordinary and preference sheres, and £66,000 by loan. The opposition of the Regent's Canal Company was to the con struction of a proposed bridge ever their canal, and that of other interests might be made subject matter of mutual accommodation and clauses. Mr. Seymour Clarke, general manager of the Great Northern Railway, was under ex amination until the committee rose. In Mr. Scholefield's committee the case for the Chertsey Extension of the Lon don and South Western Railway was concluded, and that for the proposed Staines, Egham, and Woking Junction Railway opened by Mr. Phinn, Q.C. The Perth Extension of the North British Railway still progresses in Mr. Has sard's conamittee,who are bearing the opposing parties. The miscellaneous bills proceeding in other committees are the Liverpool and London Fire and Life Insurance and Globe Insurance Companies ; the Nottingham Gas and Belfast Improvement. In the committee of which Lord Wodehouse is chairman, ;Mr. Hawkshaw, C.E,, and other witnesses were examined in opposition to the proposed Bute Docks at Cardiff, and the case of the West London Docks and Ware houses Bill was opened by Mr. Burke, Q.C., in Earl Cath cart's committee. The object of the bill is to change the name of the undertaking to that of the Railways Junction Warehouses and Canal Company, to take additional lands, to lay down tramways, and connect them with the London and Brighton Railway at Battersea, to make working agree ments with that company and the London and North- Western, Groat Western, and London, Chatham, and Dover Companies, to raise in addition to their authorised share capital of £130,000, a further sum of £40,000, and to bor row £130,000. Sir C. Fox, the engineer, was the chief witness examined. Liverpool Cotton Market —This Day, Market firm. Sales about 6,000, Irnports,l2,l4l. Previously, 83,977. _ Proposed Purchase of a Permanent Income for Garibaldi, MEETING THIS DAY. A. meeting of a few friends of General Garibaldi was held this morning at Stafford House, for the purpose of considering the propriety of presenting General Garibaldi with a substantial testimonial of the approval of his friends in England. Amongst those present were the Duke of Sutherland, the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Earl of Harrowby, Lord Taunton, Sir F. Goldsmith, C. Seely, Esq., M.P. ; D. Robertson, of Lady kirk, M.P.; G. Moore, Esq.; W. Gore Langton, Esq., M.P.; A. W. Dunlop, Efq., M.P.; R. Dalglish, Esq., M.P.; the Hon. A. Kinnaird, M.P. ; Sir Morton Peto, Bart., M.P. ; W. E. Foster, Es., M.P. ; J. Howard, Esq., Mayor of Bedford ; Alderman Meehi ; Irving Hare, E , q., &c., Sze. After a few preliminary observations from some of the noblemen present, The Earl of SHAFTESBURY moved the fallowing resolution : "That this meeting is of opinion that General Garibaldi ought not to be allowed to leave England without some substantial token of the profound admiration felt by all classes throughout the United Kingdom for his unselfish patriotism and disinterested services in the cause of freedom." Mr,C. SEELEY seconded the resolution, which, on being put by the chairman, was carried unani mously. Lord HARROWBY then moved the next resolution, namely, " That a fund be raised for the purpose of procuring a permanent income to General Garibaldi and to his family afar him." Mr. W. E. FOSTER, M.P., seconded the resolu tion, which, like the former, was carried unani mously. Resolutions appointing the Duke of Sutherland chairman, Charles Seely, Esq„ M.P., deputy chairman, and the Hon. Arthur Kinnaird, M.P., treasurer of the fund, were then agreed to. A working committee, to carry the above resolu tions into effect was then appointed, consisting of the chairman, deputy-chairman, the treasurer, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Samuel Morley, Esq., R. Dal gleish, Esq., M.P., and W. Gore Langton, Esq., M.P„ with power to add to their n‘mber. The following subscriptions were announced : F. Howard, Esq. Hon. A. Kinnaird 5O 0 0 W. Leaf U. Leverson, Esq. G. Langton, M.P. Samuel Morley, Sir M. Peto D. Robertson, Esq., of Lady Kirk .... 105 0 0 Duke of Sutherland .... 200 0 0 Duchess of Sutherland 52 0 0 Lord Shaftesbury Mr. C. Bezin Mrs. Main Crossley, Brothers Dunlop, M.P. Mrs. Dunlop 2O 0 0 R. Dalgleisb, E q W. F. Foster Sir F. Goldschmid Lord Harrowby J. Howard, Esq. C. Seely, Esq. Mrs. Seeley Some other minor sums having been handed in the proceedings terminated. GARIBALDI'S HEALTH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. have seen the letter of Dr. Ferguson to the 7irnes of to-day concerning General Geri baidi's health, in which he states that it would be unsafe for his health to fulfil the engage ments he has undertaken to visit certain pro vincial towns. I feel bound, as the physician in re • gular attendance upon the General, to affirm that his health is perfectly satisfactory, and that his wound, since four or five months cicatrised, no longer requires surgical care, I make this statement with greater confidence, inasmuch as it was confirmed on the occasion of his first con - sultatioa by Dr. Ferguson himself, and still more recently by Dr. Partridge, I am firmly convinced that the General is able to undergo the journey without danger which he proposed to undertake. Or. G. BASILE, Chirurgo del Generale Garibaldi. Departure of Garibaldi from England, We believe we can state positively that General Garibaldi will leave England on Friday next in the Duke of Sutherland's yacht for Caprera. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS, APRIL 18. PENAL SERVITUDE ACTS AMENDMENT BILL. [ln the Committee.] —Clause 4.—Amendment proposed, "at the end of the clause, to add the words if any holder of a licence granted under the said Penal Servitude Acts, or troy of them, who shall be at large in the United King dom, shag fail to report himself to the chief police station of the borough Cr district where he shall be on his arrival therein, and subsequently on the first day of each month, or shall change his loca:ty without having previcusly station to which he last notified the same to the police reported himself, he shall be deemed guilty of a misde meanour, and may be summarily convieed thereof, and hie licence shall be forthwith forfeited by of such conviction.'" Question put, "That those words be there added," The Committee divided—Ayes, 148; Noes, 120. AYES —l4B. Adderley, C. B. Gard, R. S. O'Brien, Sir P. Angerstein, W. Gaskell, J. M. O'Conor Don, The Annesley, Col. H. Goddard, A. L. O'Loghlen, Sir C. Archdall, Capt.M.E. Gore, J. R. 0. 0 lteilly, it. W. Astell, J. H. Greene, J. Paget, C. Ayrton, A. S. Grogan, Sir E. Pakingto ll , Sir J. S. Bar ttelot, Col. Hamilton, Lord C. Parker, 3lajor W. Beecroft, G. S. Hardy, Gathorne Pollard Urquhart W Beutinck, G. W. P. Hardy, J. Powell, F. S. Bentinck, G. C. Hartopp, E. B. R.epton, G. W. J. Blake, J. A. Hassard, M. D. Ridley, Sir M. W. Bovill, Wm. Hay, Sir J Rowley, Hon, R. T. Bramston, T. W. Heathcote, Sir W. Sclater-Booth, G. Bremridge, R. Beathcot., G. H. Scott, Lord H. Bridges, Sir B. Henuerson, J. Selwyn, C. J. Brooks, R, Henley, Lord Seymour, Danby Browne, Lord J. T. Hennessy, J. P. Shelley, Sir J. V. Bruce, C. L. C. Holford, R. S. Sheridan, R. B. Bruce, Sir H. Hornby, W. H. Smith, Augustus Bruen, Henry Ho. &all, T. B. Smith, S. G. Burghley, Lord Hume, W. SmoHeft, P. Burrell, Sir P. Humphery, W. Somes, Joseph Cargill. W. Kekewich, S. Stacpoole, W. Cartwright, Col. Kendall, N. Stanhope, J. B. Cave, S. Kerrison, Sir E. Stewart, Sir M. R. Chapman, J. Knatchbull, W. Stronge, J. M. Cogan, W. H. Knightley, R. Sullivan, M. Cole, Hon. H. Laird, J. Surtees, H. E. Cole, J. L. Langton, W. G. Talbot, Hon. W. C. Corry, H. L. Langton, W. H. G. Tollemache, J. H. Dickson, Col. Lefroy, A. Torrens, R. Dillwyn, Lewis L. Legh, W. J. Tottenham,Lt.-Col. Disraeli, Benjamin Liddell, Hon. H. G. Trefusis, Hon. C. H. Du Cane, C. Lovaine, Lord Turner, J. A. Duncombe, W. E. Lygon, lion. F. Turner, C. Eunne, Col. Maguire , J. F. Vandeleu r , Col. dwards, Col. Matins, R. Waldron, L. Egerton, Sir P. Manners, _Lord J. Walpole, S. H. Egerton, E. C. Marsh, M. H. Walsh, Sir J. B. Elphinstone, Sir J. Mitford, W. T. Waterhouse, S. Estcourt, S. Montgomery, Sir G. Wat'ington, J. Ewart, William Moo:, H. 'Whiteside, J. Ewart, J. C. Morgan, C. 0. S. Winnington, Sir T. Fane, Col. Morris, D. Wynn, C. W. W. Farquhar, Sir M. Morritt, W. Wyvill, M. Farrer, J. Mowbray, Rt. Hn. J. Yorke, J. R. Finch, C. W. Mundy, William Fitzgerald, W. S. Naas, Lord TELLERS. Fleming, 'l'. W. Noel, G. J. Gallwey, Sir W. P. North, Col. Hunt, G. W. Galway, Viscount Northcote, Sir S. H. Black, Adam. NOES —l2O. Adair, H. E. Floyer. J. Palmer, Sir R. Agar-Ellis, Hon. L. Foster, W. 0. Palmerston, Viset. Anson, Major Gibson, T. M. Patten, Col. W. Bagwell, J. Gilpin, C. Peacocke, G. M. Baring, Thos. Geo. Glyn, G. G. Pease, H. Barnes, T. Goldsmid, Sir F. Peel, Sir R. Barrow, W. H. • Goschen, G. J. Peel, F. Bathurst, A. A. Grey, Sir G. Pennant, Col. Beaumont,Somerset Grosvenor, Earl PiLkington, James Berkeley, C. P. F. Hand,ey, J. Powell, J. Bright, J. llankey, Thorns= Pry - se, Capt. E. L. Buchanan, W. Ilayter, Sir W. Pritchard, John Buller, J. W. Headlam, Thus. E. Proby, Lord G. L. Burke, Sir T. J. Henley, J. , Pilot D , D. Bury, Viscount Herbert, 11. A. Ramsden , Sir J. W. Butler, C. S. Ilibbert, J. T. Ricardo, 0. Butt, Isaac Hodgkinson, G. Robartes, T. J. A. Cardwell, Rt. Hn. E, Butt, W. Robertson, 1). Carnegie,Hn. C. Ingham, R. Russell, A. J. E. Castlerosse, Vist. Johnstone, Sir J. Russell, F. W. Cholmeley, Sir M. King, Hon. P. St. Aubyn, J. Clay, James Kinglake, A. W. Salomons,Aiderman Clifton, Sir R. Kinglake, Serj. J. Seely, C. Clive, George Kingscote, Col. Smith, Abel Cohbett, J. 31. Knatchbull-lingess Stuart, Col. Collier, Sir R. P. Layard, A. H. Thornhill, W. P. Colthurst, Sir G. Lawson, W. Tracy, Hon. C. Cowper, Hon. W.F. Lefevre, G. J. S. Villiers, Rt. Hon. C. Cox, W. Lewis, Harvey Vyner, Reginald Crawford, R. W. Locke, John Walter, John Dalglish, Robert Mainwaring,_T. Whitbread, S. Davey, R. Martin, P. W. White, Jas. Denman, G. Martin, J. White, L. Dent, John Dent Miller, T. Williams, W. Duff, R. Mills, J. R.. Wood, Sir C. Enfield, Viscount Moffatt, George Woods, Henry Evans, T. W. Neate, C. Wyld, James Ewing, 11. E. C. North, F. Wyndham, Hon. P. Feuwick, Henry Padmore, R. TELLERS. Fenwiek, E. 31, Paget, Lord A. Brand, H. B. Finlay, A. S. Paget, Lord C. E. Dunbar, Sir Wm. HER MAJESTY. -4- WINDSOR CASTLE, Monday. The Quell, accompanied by her Royal Highne ss the Princess Helena, drove in the grounds of th e Castle this morning. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended by Lieutenant Haig, rode on horseback. His Majesty the King of the Belgians, attended by General Count de Moerkerke, went to Clare mont, and visited the Queen Marie Amelie. Earl Russ li had an audience of the Queen. Baron de Cetto, Bavarian Minister, was pre sensed to the Queen, at an audience, b y Earl Russell. M. de Bille, Danish Minister; M. Quaade, en a M. Krieger, were also presented, at an audience, Earl Russell. • The King of the Belgians. The King of the Belgians, who is at pre69nt at Windsor, will take leave of her Majesty and the royal family to-day, and will proceed to Dover on his return to Brussels. His Majesty will travel by a special train pro vided by the Sontn-Eastern Company will arrive at Waterloo at 3.40. Then the journEY will be continued by means of the Charing.cross line on the South-Eastern at London-bridges an d Dover will be reached at a quarter to six. The King will sleep at the L rd Warden Hat!lt and will proceed to Ostend on Wednesday morning' - HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALFRED.--It ig understood that Prince Alfred is about to proceed on a to ur or cruise of eeveral months' duration. He is to leave f or Germany on the 26th, and, after paying some visits ther e ' will proceed to the Mediterranean, where he will cruise about three months. The Princesses Helena and Louise came to Lon' don last evening, attended by Lady Caroline Barringto o l and were present at the Philharmonic Concerts. Their Royal Highnesses afterwards returned to Windsor by the Great Western Railway. His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal COra' manding-in-Chief will hold a levee at one o'clock on FrideY next, The Duke of Newcastle is considerably improved in health. Yesterday his grace was able to take a carriage airing for nearly two hours. The Duchess (Dowager) of Sutherland will leave Stafford House, St. James's, to-day, for Chiswick House. The Marchioness of Abercorn, accompanied by Lord Claud and Lady Georgiana Hamilton, is expected t° arrive at Chesterfield House to-day from Paris, where 1 3 ° ladyship and family arrived at the close of the past wee l from Nice. The Earl and Countess of Yarborough u re pected to arrive at their mansion in Arlington-street ° Monday next from Brocklesby-park, Lincolnshire, for th e season. VV The Earl and Countess of Zetland have 1 32 . 4 e arrangements to arrive in town for the season to-day fr° 3l Aske Hall, Yorkshire. The Earl and Countess of Wilton have gone C ll a visit to the Earl and Countess Craven at Coombe Abbel , near Coventry, for a few days. The Earl and Lady Constance Grosvenor 1 05.ve town to-day to pass a we e k with the Du c h ess (Dowager) °f Satherland at Chiswick, after which they take up tl ielt abode for the season at their residence at Prince's-gate. Tae Earl of Radnor is nut so well as his larCi ° circle of friends would wish. His increasing age belong to tell upon a well regulated life and vigorous constitution. DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF PETERBOROUGU The Bishop of Peterborough died yesterday after noon, between 3 and 4 o'clock, at the Palace, Peterboroug h ' The last hours of the venerable prelate were peaceful in th e extreme. He was wracked by no violent pains, but died quietly and almost with a struggle. Though the illnes s which proved fatal to the bishop was somewhat sudden, great age, 84, and his increasing infirmities, had prepare the public mind for his decease. George Davys, BisheP Peterborough, graduated Christ's College, Cambridge, 16 031 10th wrangler,and became a fellow. He subsequf ntly becam e curate of Li ttlebury; in 1814 of C hesterfield; this latter carol he held until Dr. Bloomfield, the late Bishop of London? was presented to that living, when Mr. Davys becam e curate of Swaffham Prior; he afterwards removed to sington, and was appointed tutor to the Princess Victoria. He was advanced to the see of Peterborough in 18 59 ' In theology the deceased prelate belonged to the veal , ' gelical section of the Church. He took no part, how' ever, in theological controversy, and was liberal towards all religious creeds. Of late years his lordship sel dom occupied his seat in the House of Lords ; and ia fact, his ambition through life was rather to be good thal l great. In the affectionate regard of his former pupil, otrr present gracious Queen, the Bishop of Peterborough beta a high place. For many years portraits of the royal family were annually sent to the bishop, and costly tokens of h er Majesty's grateful affection were frequently bestowed upo n him. Throughout his diocese his late bishop was univeriall loved and respected, and his loss will be deeply regretted' , - uiirt 01111L11: e I • THE PRINCESS'S THEATRE, DONNA DIANA. Mr. Westland Marston's admirable play, " Do l3lltl Diana," has again taken its place in the bills of tib ia theatre, the nonappearance of which, even for the short time that has elapsed since its per" formance, we cannot but look upon as a manag orifil mistake. Amidst the universal approbation of the press and the public this play was suddenly Nvi tir drawn from representation ; but whatever reb sotl may have led to that step, we can only say w e fe' gretted its occurrence, and have now to exp re° our gratification at its reproduction—not its `` re ; vival." The parts of Donna Diana and Don CO 6 O were again sustained by Mr. and Mrs. Hernia% Vezio, and it is only necessary to say that b't these accomplished artistes embodied their 1'041; tive characters in a manner that left nothing to to desired, and which gave the utmost gratificat ion the _audience. Mr. George Vining also sust ain e o his original part of Perin in hie best style, and 3 11 ,, Rebecca Powell resumed her part of the bewitc.tlic; little waiting woman on the imperious n0 e13 06 Thane. At the fah of the curtain the applause s il os immense, and in compliance with the unantol ° o call of the house, it was again raised, in order 03 the principal performers might publicly ack ledge the applause their exertions had eli"i te d , The house was very fully and fashionably atte)ao ROYAL LITERARY FUND. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. 4, fol Sin,—l fim directed by th e committee of the 0, Literary Fund to inform you that the paragraph wiliuL t t, i peo.rs in this day's Athenmunt, stating that the Print) 0 Wales will not preside at the a nnual dinner of the sc.cietJ in May, is incorrect. The error Las arisen from an inadvertenc y in sending 6$ insertion an old a d ver ti se ment of the anniversary of le's, year, instead of the .advertise ment p re p ared fur the enetlii/i; celebration. No ahem' tion whatever has taken piece 0 t . e i, arrangements for the eicner on the 18th of May, at vi l ' i I his Royal highness the P. -ince of Wales will pr esido am Sir, your obedient servan.:* .' 4, Adelphi-terrace, April 16, 1b164 0 CTAV lAN BLEwx:r;.l.'• THE MURDEROUS ASSAULT t..' N A LiV r °ViPll ., SURGEON.—The prisoners Price and Se‘ t we ,f - e n t4tl brought before Mr. Raffles, the Liver 0, s"l3-1:1:rct magistrate, yesterday. It was stated that Pr ' - 1:1 4 ' although much better, was still unable to attend tt....8 C ° 4' Dr. Rowo's constitution has apparently been Be r ' 2 ° shattered, and his recovery must be a matter of time' - application to admit the prisoners to bail was ref used ' 0 1 ACCIDENTAL POISONINGS. The LiverPo borough coroner sat yestet day for the purpose ot cepting bail for Mr Richard Poole (assistant to Messrs. and Abraham, pharmaceutical chymists), against.selio jury on Saturday returned a verdict of mans laughte r I had caused the death of Mr John Lingard, Liceir,:, tradesman, by making up a prescription with strichn umber stead of James's powder. The coroner exhibited 0 ,, t ° of betties (Thouger's patent), which had beer . forw t erde" t 0 him that morning, the object of the patent bottle /Divg, prevent accidental poisoning. The bottle, or rather ire the coroner said had been approved by Dr. Lar'z ester i :e l whose opinion he concurred. The ordinary disPentbA "sittg,,ottle is suriounded by sandpaper, and a portion of dis e covered by the same material, which be in g felt by the „.f,t peuser or patent in handling the bott le at once shows !ff oo it contains some dangerous preparation. At the inque'', ,„ Saturday Mr. Bird, a Liverpool chy mist, exhibited his sar . l poison bottles and corks to the jury and to the w ed : a ct : o witnesses who had given evidence in the case. than 1311. 4 ,t contrivance would seem to be still more effective of Mr Thouger. It consiets of a stopper or cork hi:, sharp, angular points, which cannot berernoved N%itb° dieting considerable pain upon the band, unless O:Le the n" i. penser puts down both the dispensing g l as s and the bottle tine bottle. By this contrivan ce bay one :using would be so distinctly reminded that it centeined pois° th4t a mistake could oiot occur ev en in the tleirk.